James Frederic HUGHES

(1883-1940)

HUGHES, James Frederic, a
Representative from Wisconsin; born in Green Bay, Brown County,
Wis., August 7, 1883; attended the public schools and was graduated
from West Green Bay High School in 1901; moved to De Pere, Brown
County, Wis., in 1901 and was employed as a salesman; member of the
De Pere Board of Education 1914-1937; delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions in 1920 and 1928; member of the Democratic
State central committee 1920-1924; served as chairman of the eighth
Wisconsin Democratic congressional committee 1928-1932; elected as
a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3,
1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed his
former pursuits as sales manager in De Pere, Wis.; died in a
hospital at Rochester, Minn., August 9, 1940; interment in Cady
Cemetery, Lawrence, near De Pere, Wis.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present